Oh really? CoD? Please teach me, oh great master, cause even Anet stated that there is no such option.

The general idea that Anet went with with regard to trading is to create two environments for trading: one within trusted circle and second outside of it to avoid scams and needles GM intervention. Trading Post is the secured way to sell and buy goods from people you don't know and can't trust without fear potential scamming. Mail is sending and receiving from trusted group of people. There is no CoD option and not going to be ( t least according to Anet blog post about it) since you only supposed to use it as you have been - among friends. What people are doing right now, spamming WTS on map chat is ripe for scamming since you can only hope that the other side will fulfill their end of the bargain and that's why Trading Post is so important - it's a security issue most of all.

Only thing that works right now is trusting people, sending the item and hope they will send money back.

So far I've done around 10 transactions that way and never been scammed. I will probably will at one point but it doesn't really matter... it's still better than salvaging stuff for 1 iron when you have a high probability of someone being honest and sendng you 20silver for an item.

Oh really? CoD? Please teach me, oh great master, cause even Anet stated that there is no such option.

The general idea that Anet went with with regard to trading is to create two environments for trading: one within trusted circle and second outside of it to avoid scams and needles GM intervention. Trading Post is the secured way to sell and buy goods from people you don't know and can't trust without fear potential scamming. Mail is sending and receiving from trusted group of people. There is no CoD option and not going to be ( t least according to Anet blog post about it) since you only supposed to use it as you have been - among friends. What people are doing right now, spamming WTS on map chat is ripe for scamming since you can only hope that the other side will fulfill their end of the bargain and that's why Trading Post is so important - it's a security issue most of all.

Huh, wouldn't know i haven't been selling or buying anything since between me and 2 friends i've had 0 issues getting ANYTHING i need... only one out of us that's having any issues is the jewel crafter but that's because he outleveled us by a good amount and we aren't mining gold yet...

Originally Posted by draykorinee

Youre in the mmo forums and you find mmos boring, Im heading on over to the twilight forums to add my unecessary and shallow 2 cents.

EDIT = Nevermind. This time I could see items on the auction house but I guess everyone going on it at the same time crashed it shortly afterwards. Heh. Next time I will make the call, the AH will be up at least an hour before posting.

All I know is...WHEN the Trading Post goes online for real there will be a shit ton of mats for sale at cheap ass prices.

That is where I will be, with my 30 gold, just waiting to soak up everything to use to my benefit. Mwahahaha!

OT: Yeah, it sucks... lol

P.S. - For those wondering, the reason I have 30g is because I have yet to do crafting and have sold EVERYTHING I have found; as well as sold through in-game mail. BTW...does anyone wanna buy 107 Tiny Fangs? I have to find out who the hell uses them. As far as I am aware even the crafters that it says in the note that SHOULD use them still have yet to find a recipe to actually do so.

I know for sure Leatherworkers use them for the insignias, i would imagine other professsions use them for the same.

I've pretty much started salvaging all the blue gear I get and make because I have no room and just keeping masterwork drops for potential market sale. Sometimes I wonder if it would be a better trade-off to just vendor the items for copper.

I redestroy them , resalvagin components ( a bit part of them). Do't worry, noone is gonna buy low level trash made by a profession. What people will eventually buy is special 400 stuff.

You complainers do realise they're not fucking around taking their time?

I do honestly wonder that when people make a claim to laziness or something, if they really honestly believe that they're all going 'eeeeh we'll get to it later.' And then like.. pictures them kicking back on beach chairs and swimming in money, or something.

An MMO launch has to be unimaginably stressful. Picture the developer, the individual dev guy, who after years of work, YEARS, he is now watching his work get released into the world. And inevitably (as with all launches) there are problems. That's scary! Of course they want to fix it. They want it all fixed yesterday. Last week.

Blah blah stress test, I've read it... there really is no reliable way to simulate what happens to hardware and programs when a major MMO launches. There simply isn't. You can simulate it - i.e. constraining servers to artificially stress the load - but you can't simulate it very accurately. Maybe some day in the future.

You complainers do realise they're not fucking around taking their time?

So, because they're working hard to fix it, we can't complain about the here and now?

"Sir, the western half of the country's power grid has failed!"
"Don't complain, we're already working on it!"

The trading post is a pretty big feature to completely disable when there's no other method of trading within the game. Its been down for close to 4 days, I think we have the right to complain at this point.

1. Comparison to D3. LOL. In D3 is AH the main feature of the game. The. Main. Feature. In GW2 you can play just fine without even know there is the AH.

2. People dont have much money right now, so even the best, most epic item in the game will be sold under the price. Already saw people in chat trying to sol some mediocre low level items for 3-4 gold. LOL.

So yes, it would be nice to have the AH. But rather they make it good and dont rush it Blizz-style.

My wife came to me and asked: "What have you done to the poor cat? She is half dead..."

I do honestly wonder that when people make a claim to laziness or something, if they really honestly believe that they're all going 'eeeeh we'll get to it later.' And then like.. pictures them kicking back on beach chairs and swimming in money, or something.

An MMO launch has to be unimaginably stressful. Picture the developer, the individual dev guy, who after years of work, YEARS, he is now watching his work get released into the world. And inevitably (as with all launches) there are problems. That's scary! Of course they want to fix it. They want it all fixed yesterday. Last week.

While there are, undoubtedly, some selfless souls who work extra hard to make sure everyone has a pleasant time, I've been around the corporate world a few too many years to believe that this is a majority, or, indeed, even a significant minority of people at any given company. Most people would call it a day past 6 pm, come hell or high water, unless they're forced to be there or there are significant overtime perks. I've literally seen people who are critical to troubleshooting a difficult situation walk out of the office when the day was over, because to them work was just work, and when the day was done, the day was done - to hell with anyone who was inconvenienced by that.

I feel sad that D3 is a standard of how bad it can be but... still not as bad as D3. I agree that it's taking too long (should've been ready at the start) but they're working on it and you can tell by them testing it quite a bit.

An Apple fanboy called me a retard.
In the real world that makes me a genius.

They should have forsaw it.
There is no excuse, this isnt to say that the game is bad because of it, but as well as people (rightfully) blamed blizzard about the server and AH issues of D3, its only fair that people get upset about this in GW2.

It is unbelievable that they couldnt get it working yet.

Except the AH is considerably more important in D3 and people were simply unable to progress without it, no AH in GW2 has not stopped me levelling my characters, not stopped me from PvPing, not even stopped me from crafting.

Except the AH is considerably more important in D3 and people were simply unable to progress without it, no AH in GW2 has not stopped me levelling my characters, not stopped me from PvPing, not even stopped me from crafting.